Artists with Disabilities
When Bay Area artist Katherine Sherwood was 44, when an artist is usually considered to be at mid-career, she lost the use of her dominant hand after suffering a stroke. She addressed the negative stereotyping of people with disabilities by creating clever and compelling paintings. More...
Chester Arnold
In “Borderline,” Chester Arnold's epic-scale landscapes take aim at our ecological plight. Crumbling ruins of concrete and brick, defaced with graffiti and maintained by small, faceless, lumpen workers, are absurd and sad and strangely beautiful. More...
Alison Saar
Her feelings about the abuse of minorities inform "Topsy Turvy's" depiction of black women empowered with determination. More...
Steve Fitch
“Much of what I have photographed is gone or in ruins. … It is as if I had a sixth sense that what I was making pictures of was going to disappear ...” says photographer Steve Fitch. More...
Nicole Eisenman
Starting with the title painting, "Dark Light" sums up Nicole Eisenman's feeling of being trapped in a world marching towards disaster. More...
Remembering Sandra Stone
Poet Sandra Stone was familiar to many artists and writers in and around Portland for more than her regular presence at art walks and host of studio salons. She wrote with insight, chutzpah and a first person voice that inhabited some of history's most interesting and idiosyncratic artists. More...
FotoFest 2018 Biennial
The current FotoFest Biennial focuses on India, and the 47 photographers mirror key issues such as race, gender and migration. More...
Penny Truitt
Steel is a new medium for Penny Truitt, better know for her ceramic sculpture. In "Confluence" the works are made up of two elements that wrestle with form, balance and spacial composition. More...
Is Death an Unfair Advantage?
Why is it that some artists of more or less equal talent are neglected and others praised and celebrated? Matthew Kangas explores a list to factors that go into an artist's historical reputation. More...
Adriane Colburn and Alice Shaw
Alice Shaw’s photography-based work explores identity in the age of simulacra. Adriane Colburn shows abstract sculptures in wood strips with metal fittings. More...
Mark Innerst
Mark Innerst's small cityscape "Tiffany" expresses a sheer rapture for the electrifying vitality of New York City at night. It's a radiant three-dimensional vision of floating geometric blocks flanked by bejeweled vertical strands of light. More...
Alex Couwenberg
The "Chevron" motif invoked by Alex Couwenberg plays off of commercial, historical and modern art references to establish a layered complexity. More...
